North Luangwa

National Park, at 235 square kilometres, is around a quarter of the size of the much better known South Luangwa, which lies just 30km distant here in northeast Zambia.

The park is a real backwater, receiving less than 5% of the visitor traffic experienced by its larger neighbour and contains only a handful of small accommodation facilities compared with the forty or fifty camps and lodges down there.

A major reason is that the reserve is almost exclusively focused on walking safari, which means that wildlife interactions tend to be less frequent and at greater distances.

The main potential downsides are that activities here are largely limited to walking safaris, that the wildlife densities are not as high as the south park, there is very limited accommodation and prices are inherently high.